monsoonvermont wrote:Just wondering, do people sell their art at Burning Man?

Are there vendors there at all? Is everything run through the organization Burning Man, food, goods, etc?

You can sell drugs. And children under 5, but only if they're healthy. Also, kiddie porn is ok, pirated dvds, knock-off Gucci and Dolce and Gabbana handbags. Prostitution is ok, but everyone is kinda dirty, so keep that in mind.

current moonBurning Man is an exercise—indeed, a challenge—in balancing cooperation, self-reliance, individual expression, and creative collaboration in the formation of an artistic community. E. Britannica

Whoa whoa, wait a minute! AntiM's Home for Wayward Art...shit, I hadn't made that connection. That was one of the first things that I saw on my first day at Burning Man, and I remember it fondly as one of the damned coolest things I saw that year (which is obviously saying a lot!). I often went out of my way to walk by it and see what random items had been recently clipped on throughout the week.

Not meaning to be another ass-kisser (though I will if you'd like), but that is honestly one of the random memories that always sticks out whenever I think about 2007.

I volunteered at Burning Man and all I got was this stupid superiority complex.

i remember last year, walking around center camp on Monday night... two teenagers (or early twenties kids) came up to me asking, "where can we get some food around here?"

All i could say was, "I have no idea." Looking back on it, I'm sure that at that time, black rock diner or some other camp would probably be serving something. I think it was the way they asked that caught me off guard. They really sounded like they wanted to know if they could buy food somewhere.

Oh i hope they survived the week.

end of random memory. but yeah - no vendors. please bring food for the week. :-)

itssunnyv wrote:i remember last year, walking around center camp on Monday night... two teenagers (or early twenties kids) came up to me asking, "where can we get some food around here?"

All i could say was, "I have no idea." Looking back on it, I'm sure that at that time, black rock diner or some other camp would probably be serving something. I think it was the way they asked that caught me off guard. They really sounded like they wanted to know if they could buy food somewhere.

Oh i hope they survived the week.

end of random memory. but yeah - no vendors. please bring food for the week.

Something like that happened to me Sunday day where out in the open playa some fired wildeye guy begged me for an orange. However he was coming down off drugs so I thought he had a legitimate excuse and just so happenned I had an extra oranges in my pack. Maybe he was psychic. He said thanks and was really really grateful.